That headline completely misrepresents what he actually says.
Personally, I can see streaming gaining more of a foothold again, due to hardware prices, but only for the niche of high-fidelity games. And I rather imagine that niche is primarily going to shrink.
We’ve already got the “friendslop” games gaining massively in popularity. And if people can’t afford new hardware, a streaming service will be just as hard of a sell.
“Dale, if I’m streaming my games in the future, I’m gonna kick your ass.”
Yea good luck with that. Especially in the US. Internet infrastructure is way behind here in a lot of areas. Some people still use dial up for fucks sake.
Not to mention latency, or god forbid the internet goes down and you can’t play games at all. Yea no thanks dumbass.
He’s right, I stream via Moonlight from my PC to my living room
So I’m not gonna be buying more games in 3 years? Guess I’ll have time to work on my backlog
They can kiss my hairy ass, not on the left, not on the right, but right in the middle. I’ll play the 40 plus years of games I’ve already amassed over and over instead. Hell I’ll even make myself ai slop choose your own adventure books before I spend one cent on streaming only anything.
fuck that noise, I’ll play ROMs of SNES for the rest of my life if it comes to it. idgaf. never giving in to cloud based bullshit ever
True, but don’t sleep on the Mega Drive / Genesis, or the Neo Geo too!
There are legitimately so many incredible titles in the 4th (16bit) console generation, that it could keep most people playing for a decade or more.
…and that’s BEFORE gaming exploded in popularity with the 5th & 6th console generations.
AAA cattle will be streaming their games in 3 years. FTFY
Sadly I don’t disagree, and that is the endgame, but 3 years is ridiculously short. Probably more like 10.
You might be… ya fuckin prick
lmao, good fucking luck realizing this without massive expenditures in infrastructure. In the US, internet is basically shit everywhere i’ve ever lived, I’ve never been able to even stream from my own PC to my phone without the experience being excruciating and unplayable on anything that wasn’t turn based.
That’s mainly because upload speed is capped much lower than download speed. That’s reversed if you’re streaming from a service though. Still a shit idea either way, hell the streaming services of several years went under in what a year or two.
Yeah. Take-Two CEO is a dumbass for the logistical reasons alone. Good-enough-to-stream-games internet is more rare than household VR headsets. There is not enough market to support this industry at the scale required to make it financially viable.
Not in America at least, which is a problem given that America is the single biggest market in the world.
That might no longer be the case after another two-and-a-half years of Trump.
they don’t care… they want people to pay for shit service to then upgrade to the less shit service to have its terms change without your consent or prior knowledge to the more expensive service that requires some other shit or specific hardware… which will also be shit.
Upgrade to less shit service? Wake me up in 2034 when that’s an option.
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You will own nothing and like it!
if that’s what they want. I’ll stop consuming quite easily.
In 3 years my internet will be just as capable of streaming games as it was 20 years ago.
And it will cost even more though.
My internet hasn’t really changed in price, been 80/month for decades, just swapped no bandwidth for extreme instability.
I won’t.
I’ve never enjoyed any of these fuckers games… if they disappear tomorrow, my gaming habits won’t change one bit. Go make games worth playing first 😂
Ah, yet another rephrasing of “You’ll own nothing.”
